Interdisciplinary Units
Interdisciplinary curriculum is the means by which educators can create opportunities for authentic learning. According to Boix Mansilla (2005), interdisciplinary education is “the capacity to integrate knowledge and modes of thinking from two or more disciplines to produce a cognitive advancement - for example, explaining a phenomenon, solving a problem, creating a product, or raising a new question - in ways that would have been unlikely through a single disciplinary means.” Authentic problem-solving and research on issues relevant to students’ lives requires a level of integration and synthesis of disciplines, connecting school to the real world.
The interdisciplinary units available on our website are a result of an intentional collaborative and creative process with other educators through our annual workshop series. We believe the process of curriculum design can be joyful and generative to the work of teaching; the process counteracts a system that prioritizes urgency, coverage, and the “expertise” of companies over educators and thus provides little time nor space for this kind of work. Check out our units below, and please consider making a donation to BCC so that we can continue our restorative and collaborative work.
Learning and Teaching about Palestine
A group of educators at our collaborative Teaching Palestine workshop in July of 2024 put together a padlet of resources around several themes for learning and teaching about the history and the culture of Palestine, for understanding the context for the violence and genocide that is occurring now (and in the past) against the Palestinian people, and for holding space with students to process emotions and trauma. Please email us at bethechangecollab@gmail.com if you have other resources to share or if you’d be willing to share what you have created or engaged in with your students, and we will add it to the padlet. Thank you to the educators, writers, artists, thinkers, and activists who have developed these resources.
